Working with a partner (listed below) use your textbook, the Internet Public Library site (http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/) and any other sources you can find to write lyrics to a song about your assigned decade. The lyrical style should follow the pattern of the 2 models that are provided and should include political, social, cultural, and economic events of the period.
Working in the same groups create a Wiki that your classmates can use to learn about the decades of the 20th century. Your Wiki MUST include the key foreign policy, political, social, cultural, and economic events of the period as well as trends in popular culture and American life. Include links to relevant sites, timelines, people to know, etc. It should be visual as well as textual.
1920’s- Arielle, Shreve 1930’s-Caroline, Ben 1940’s-Amanda, Jordan
1950’s-Peter, Madelaine 1960’s-Kelly, Andrew 1970’s-Gaurav, Danielle, Danny,
1980’s- Aaron, Liza
Decades Assignment
Part I
Working with a partner (listed below) use your textbook, the Internet Public Library site (http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/) and any other sources you can find to write lyrics to a song about your assigned decade. The lyrical style should follow the pattern of the 2 models that are provided and should include political, social, cultural, and economic events of the period.
Examples:We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Paint it Gilded-Daniel Wade
Part 2
Working in the same groups create a Wiki that your classmates can use to learn about the decades of the 20th century. Your Wiki MUST include the key foreign policy, political, social, cultural, and economic events of the period as well as trends in popular culture and American life. Include links to relevant sites, timelines, people to know, etc. It should be visual as well as textual.
1920’s- Arielle, Shreve 1930’s-Caroline, Ben 1940’s-Amanda, Jordan1950’s-Peter, Madelaine 1960’s-Kelly, Andrew 1970’s-Gaurav, Danielle, Danny,
1980’s- Aaron, Liza
You can find your pre-set Wiki page at one of the following links:
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1920%27s
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1930%27s
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1940%27s
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1950%27s
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1960%27s
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1970%27s
http://apusdecades.wikispaces.com/decades-1980%27s